Bess Kalb, NOBODY WILL TELL YOU THIS BUT ME

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🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Bess Kalb is the debut author of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me. She is an Emmy-nominated writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live and wrote for the Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2016 and the Academy Awards in 2017 and 2018. She regularly writes for The New Yorker's Daily Shouts and received a WGA Award in 2016. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me is a beautiful memoir written from the voice of her beloved grandmother. Bess began writing from her grandmother's perspective as a way to feel closer to her and process grief after her death. Bess and I chatted about the authenticity of writing from a loved one's voice and why she felt it was the best way to honor what she calls her grandmother's superhero origin story. I loved hearing about Bess's first experience as a six-year-old writer, something her mother still sweetly reminds her of, and her challenge to all of us to write from the perspective of someone we love. Make sure you catch the fascinating story of the Twitter side project Bess started to distract herself from a soul-crushing job and how this led to a career as a comedy writer! I loved having her as the featured author at my recent book club. To join the book club, check out the link in bio!!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast.
0:12.1	Moms don't have time to read books.
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0:21.2	Today's episode has been sponsored by Good Pods.
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0:28.9	podcast junkie friends and other people you admire to see what podcasts they're listening
0:33.1	to.
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0:35.6	So I know I have my own podcast, but even I find myself overwhelmed by how many episodes there are of other podcasts and what I should listen to next.
0:44.1	So Good Pods is still in beta, and they're looking for testers who will give them honest feedback.
0:48.6	So you can go to Good Pods on the App Store or Google Play and check out which podcast your friends are listening to.
0:55.2	And by the way, go on there and show them that you're listening to my podcast. That would
0:59.3	really be awesome. So anyway, Good Pods was founded by a friend I used to work with many moons ago
1:05.4	in, I guess, 1999, which really ages me here. But anyway, JJ Ramberg and I used to work together at a big company called Idealab.
1:14.5	If anybody heard of that, she was with a site called Cooking.com, and I was with Idealab.
1:18.7	And now she started good pods, among many other endeavors that she's done.
1:22.5	And this she's done with her brother, Brad Ramberg, who was also at Idealab with me.
1:26.6	So it all comes full circle.
1:28.5	So anyway, thank you to JJ and Brad and everybody at Goodpods for sponsoring this episode
1:33.8	and for making a new searchable listening tracking thing for podcasts, which is going to be
1:40.3	super helpful in helping people find great podcasts, hopefully like mine. Thank you.
1:45.8	I'm excited to be doing a Skype interview today with Best Call, the author of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me.
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